Re: Add function to make frame topmost?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:
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> 30 apr 2010 kl. 22.54 skrev Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
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>> I see, thanks.  I don't know if there's a word for such things under X11
>> (I guess we should ask the freedesktop guys).
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> You can tell the window manager that you would like to be topmost, but the
> window manager is free to ignore your request. You cant know for sure what
> will happen.


Thanks Jan. But how are tooltip frames handled on X by Emacs then?

On w32 you can say that a window (on a level corresponding to Emacs
frame) should be topmost. This is ortogonal to activating the app. And
the topmost property is per window, not per app.

Is this the same (sub)structure as on X?